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The obvious sports story to round out the nightly newscast was a recap of the climax to the NFL's Super Bowl XLIII. A beautiful last-minute catch by Santonio Holmes won the trophy for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Most Valuable Player award for Holmes himself. Sure enough ABC's John Berman filed the report--complete with Holmes' admission that he spent a year as a Florida teenager dealing drugs--but the usual copyright restrictions associated with sports journalism mean that Berman's story is not available online.
So the day's other drugs-and-sports acts as back-up. CBS' Kelly Cobiella showed us the picture in The News of the World, the London tabloid newspaper, that has Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps apparently inhaling marijuana at a party last fall. "He has been partying constantly since last spring," USA swimming coach Jim Kelly told Cobiella. The 23-year-old superstar called his own toking "youthful" and "inappropriate" on his Facebook page. Both Speedo swimsuits and Omega watches, Phelps' two main sponsors, are standing by their fish "so far."
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